Top 10 viral stories for October 31st 2012

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Metta Magazine Top 5 viral news stories for 1030/2012

Metta Magazine Top 5 news stories for 10/30/2012

Third party presidential debates

Third party presidential debates

World's Largest Pyramid Discovered, Lost Mayan City Of Mirador Guatemala CNN

World's Largest Pyramid Discovered, Lost Mayan City Of Mirador Guatemala CNN

Other Countries Bailout Bankers, Iceland Jails Them

Other Countries Bailout Bankers, Iceland Jails Them

Fukushima Radiation: Japan Irradiates the West Coast of North America

Fukushima Radiation: Japan Irradiates the West Coast of North America

Universe is a computer simulation? German scientists say they can find out

Universe is a computer simulation? German scientists say they can find out

Dr. Steel Extended Interview - Reality Engineering

Dr. Steel Extended Interview - Reality Engineering

Right to Know: Vote Yes on Prop 37

Right to Know: Vote Yes on Prop 37

Over 1 Million Pounds of Food from 3 Acres!

Over 1 Million Pounds of Food from 3 Acres!

Self-immolation of 18-year-old in Sichuan province is the third such incident in three days in country's southwest.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/03/201236174017267366.html

Huge Solar Flare's Magnetic Storm May Disrupt Satellites, Power Grids
http://www.space.com/14818-solar-flare-magnetic-storm-satellites.html

Justifying ‘justice’: When it’s OK for US to kill own citizens
http://rt.com/news/holder-us-killings-justification-931/

Bust Reveals Government Runs Hacking Groups
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1857/374/NL/Bust_Reveals_Government_Runs_Hacking_Groups.html

Bacteria Might Communicate Using Radio Waves
http://www.seattlehomeopathy.com/2011/10/12/bacteria-might-communicate-using-radio-waves/

I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave
http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping-warehouses-labor?page=3

The Universe as a Hologram
http://www.globalone.tv/forum/topics/is-the-universe-a-holographic?groupUrl=quantumquest

Which Browser Has Your Back? That Would Be Firefox
https://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/241661/which_browser_has_your_back_that_would_be_firefox.html

Radical Sharing Works: This Guy Lets the World Use His Starbucks Card for Free
http://www.good.is/post/radical-sharing-works-this-guy-lets-the-world-use-his-starbucks-card-for-free/

Grandest of All Ponzi Schemes? Foreign Central Banks Begin Buying US Stocks
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Grandest-of-All-Ponzi-Sche-by-Richard-Clark-120303-39.html

Court rules Internet IP addresses are not people
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/court-rules-internet-ip-addresses-are-not-people/1022?tag=nl.e550

A mute button for people? 'Speech jamming gun' that stops people talking by freezing the brain
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2109137/A-mute-button-people-Japanese-invent-speech-jamming-gun-stops-people-talking-freezing-brain.html

Election hacked, drunken robot elected to school board
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/01/electronic_voting_hacked_bender/

Lower classes quicker to show compassion in the face of suffering
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/12/19/classandincome/

Battery breakthrough could bring electric cars to all
http://gigaom.com/cleantech/a-battery-breakthrough-that-could-bring-electric-cars-to-the-masses/

The Pirate Bay, Now Without Torrents
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-dumps-torrents-120228/

Anonymous Hits Interpol Site After 25 Arrested
http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2012/02/28/anonymous-hits-interpol-site-after-25-arrested/

Trade unions strike: Banking, transport hit across India
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/strike-across-india-banking-transport-hit/234385-3.html

Wikileaks emails allege 'Stratfor spied on activists'
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-grid/stratfor-hired-corporations-monitor-activists

Central America regional drug legalization
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/02/should-central-america-legalize-drugs/253707/

Interpol arrests 25 suspected members of ‘Anonymous’ hackers group
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/28/197604.html

Will the FBI shut down the Internet on March 8 because of computer virus concerns?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102856/Will-FBI-shut-Internet-March-8-virus-concerns.html

You've Felt It Your Entire Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=t3j_lyTrtG0

Top Social Media Websites Caught Censoring Controversial Content
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Top_Social_Media_Websites_Caught_Censoring_Controversial_Content_/18095/0/0/0/Y/M.html

No sex, but crushed heads are OK. Leaked Facebook document reveals website's secretive and bizarre 'graphic content' policy
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2104424/Facebooks-bizarre-secretive-graphic-content-policy-revealed-leaked-document.html

How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effect
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-google-search-history-googles-new-privacy-policy-takes-effect

Intelligence officials seem to be polishing up their case to take on Anonymous like a 'stateless' terrorist group.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/who-do-you-trust-less-the-nsa-or-anonymous/253399/

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the "One Percent"
http://www.truth-out.org/how-swedes-and-norwegians-broke-power-one-percent/1327942221

The Indiana state lawmaker who declared the Girl Scouts a “radicalized organization” that encourages homosexuality and abortions is sticking by his comments amid an uproar,
http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fnews%2Fstories%2F0212%2F73167.html

Cybersecurity Act of 2012 Introduced
http://www.natlawreview.com/article/cybersecurity-act-2012-introduced

Government Pressures Twitter to Hand Over Keys to Occupy Wall Street Protester's Location Data Without a Warrant
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/malcolm-harris-occupy-wall-street-twitter-government-pressure

Greek unions promise popular revolt over bailout
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/22/greek-unions-popular-revolt-bailout

Syrian live streamer killed after being watched by millions
http://gigaom.com/video/syrian-citizen-journalist-killed/

"It's being called the 'negative salary.'" Some Greeks might have to pay for their jobs.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/02/some-greeks-might-have-pay-their-jobs/49023/

Chevron Nigeria gas well fire 'may burn for months'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17126335

Suicide bombers poised to strike U.S., Iran warns
http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/21/suicide-bombers-poised-to-strike-u-s-iran-warns/#ixzz1n2Jz16C6

Iceland's Viking Victory
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100015053/icelands-viking-victory/

New Research: GMO Food Far Worse Than We Think
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/new-research-gmo-food-far-worse-we-think

Cancer: the Forbidden Cures - Full Documentary
http://vimeo.com/25279346

SPIN: Democracy at work - a documentary by Brian Springer (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvkwnthwd7Q

Anonymous Promises Regularly Scheduled Friday Attacks
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/anonymous-friday-attacks/

Human Resources (social engineering)
http://www.openfilm.com/videos/human-resources

BBC Now Admits AL Qaeda Never Existed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzun4ehFjeA

UBS at the center of the financial world’s latest scandal: an alleged conspiracy by traders and brokers to rig the price of derivatives around the world by manipulating a key interest rate.
http://www.businessweek.com/finance/libor-manipulation-another-black-eye-for-ubs-02172012.html

Anonymous launches 'Operation Global Blackout', aims to DDoS the Root Internet servers
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/anonymous-launches-operation-global-blackout-aims-to-ddos-the-root-internet-servers/10387

Online surveillance bill (C-30) opens door for Big Brother
http://www.politicsplus.org/blog/2012/02/18/online-surveillance-bill-c-30-opens-door-for-big-brother/

How a Filthy Rich 196 People Will Buy Our Election
http://www.alternet.org/story/154172/how_a_filthy_rich_196_people_will_buy_our_election/?page=entire

Reality Check: What Did Iran's President Really Say About "Wiping Israel Off The Map"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5m661fcNZI

World War Web Advisory #5: CyberWar: First SOPA/PIPA/PCIPA/S2105, Now HR2096/HR3523/HR3674/S1152/S2111
http://www.information-online.com/node/459579

Obama Administration Asks Supreme Court to Dismiss ACLU Challenge to Warrantless Wiretapping Law
http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/obama-administration-asks-supreme-court-dismiss-aclu-challenge-warrantless

Noam Chomski Manufacturing Consent.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5631882395226827730

Can non-profits change the world? Ask a Socialist:
http://freedomroad.org/askasocialist/2011/10/can-non-profits-change-the-world/

Breaking the Stress Cycle - Of the Rat Race
http://icpa4kids.org/Wellness-Articles/breaking-the-stress-cycle-of-the-rat-race.html

The Windowfarms Project.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkCuPrsPn_I

Dalit millionaires defy caste system
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/NB16Df02.html

Social apps 'harvest smartphone contacts'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17051910

Russia launches new missile defense to cover Atlantic
http://rt.com/politics/opens-kaliningrad-radar-station-459/

Would-be China Defector, Once Bo Xilai’s Right Hand, Oversaw Organ Harvesting
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/would-be-china-defector-once-bo-xilai-s-right-hand-oversaw-organ-harvesting-191338.html

From those living in the storm drains under Las Vegas to the tent cities now springing up around the United States, P a n o r a m a finds out how the poor are surviving in America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=suJCvkazrTc

The Death Delusion
http://bardcan.wordpress.com/

US Admiral warns Iran: We are ready today
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/226477.html

The DOJ’s escalating criminalization of speech
http://www.salon.com/2011/09/04/speech_23/singleton/

30,000 Spy Drones Over America Aprroved

http://theintelhub.com/2012/02/09/congress-approves-30000-spy-drones-over-america-as-us-police-state-tightens/

Iran prepares mass graves for U.S. Troops - RT News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I5BOO--3CbU

"Bold Alligator 2012" drills 20,000 troops on US East Coast for Persian Gulf action
http://www.debka.com/article/21716/

A Network of Farmers, Engineers, and Supporters Building the Global Village Construction Set
http://opensourceecology.org/

The Rockefellers, The FDA & The Cancer Industry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbyY3jqvVBQ

Why economic inequality leads to collapse.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/feb/05/inequality-leads-to-economic-collapse

More MegaUpload Fallout As BitTorrent Search Engine BTjunkie Calls It Quits
http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/06/more-megaupload-fallout-as-bittorrent-search-engine-btjunkie-calls-it-quits/

Earthquake drills to take place in the New Madrid fault region.
http://www.emissourian.com/news/top_stories/article_40c374f8-85b2-546b-b61b-87237829e7c7.html

How to Get Smarter, One Breath at a Time
http://psyphz.psych.wisc.edu/web/News/Time_Jan06.html

Pursuit of an elusive mental state known as "flow"
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328501.600-zap-your-brain-into-the-zone-fast-track-to-pure-focus.html

Cohan: Did Psychopaths Take Over Wall Street Asylum?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-03/did-psychopaths-take-over-wall-street-asylum-commentary-by-william-cohan.html?uXFe&cmpid=spn.evrgrnuv.leaders.wallstreet.autotarg&uQZe

Cybersecurity Bill Advances in House – But Does it Advance Privacy?
http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/cybersecurity-bill-advances-house-does-it-advance/

Beijing’s ‘New Frontier’ is ground zero for the organ harvesting of political prisoners.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/xinjiang-procedure_610145.html?nopager=1

Local currencies: 'In the U.S. we don't trust'
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/17/pf/local_currency/index.htm?iid=EL

States seek currencies made of silver and goldhttp://money.cnn.com/2012/02/03/pf/states_currencies/?article

Science behind the big freeze: is climate change bringing the Arctic to Europe?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/science-behind-the-big-freeze-is-climate-change-bringing-the-arctic-to-europe-6358928.html

More than 200 Syrians killed in one day
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/03/video-activist-more-than-200-syrians-killed-in-one-day/?_ft_=qid.5705106253375750071%3Amf_story_key.10150582940783158%3Afilter.h_nor%3Asubstories.5%3Afbid.340133019343187%2C248385111905873%2C287440057987336%2C281650685235100%2C341875399167859%3Ac.m

Cairo street battles enter fourth day
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/02/201224131423624977.html

China cut off internet in area of Tibetan unrest
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/03/china-internet-links-tibetan-unrest

Moscow: Thousands join pro- and anti-Putin protests
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16885446

N. Korea Opens Door to Talks with S. Korea
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2106086,00.html

Floating cities proposed as havens of future happiness
http://www.reuters.com/video/2012/02/03/floating-cities-proposed-as-havens-of-fu?videoId=229624090&videoChannel=6

The ancestor of all life on Earth might have been a gigantic planetary super-organism
http://io9.com/5862894/the-ancestor-of-all-life-on-earth-might-have-been-a-gigantic-planetary-super+organism?popular=true

NDAA Another Broken Promise by President Barack Obama and an Attack on Civil Liberties
http://www.policymic.com/articles/3234/ndaa-another-broken-promise-by-president-barack-obama-and-an-attack-on-civil-liberties

Can The Simple Flywheel Replace The High-Tech Electric Battery?
http://www.fastcoexist.com/1678338/can-the-simple-flywheel-replace-the-high-tech-electric-battery

Hackers deface website of lawyers for US Marinehttp://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-hackers-deface-website-lawyers-marine.html

Anonymous says it will leak giant cache of Iraq war e-mails
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/anonymous-hacks-fbi-scotland-yard-conference-call-about-anonymous/2012/02/03/gIQAjzr0mQ_blog.html

Leaked: US to Start ‘Trade Wars’ with Nations Opposed to Monsanto, GMO Crops
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/leaked-us-to-start-trade-wars-with.html

Hydrogen is all around us. But how do we get at it?

http://www.rps.psu.edu/hydrogen/unbound.html

Quantum Coherence and Conscious Experience
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/brainde.php

Who to blame for the Great Recession? So many big names are in the frame
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/feb/03/who-caused-financial-crisis-great-recession

Why Iceland Should Be in the News But Is Not
http://www.zcommunications.org/why-iceland-should-be-in-the-news-but-is-not-by-deena-stryker

INTERNET RISING: "Investigating the evolving relationships between the Internet and the collective consciousness of humanity"
http://www.internetrising.net/

Study of the Day: Soon, You May Download New Skills to Your Brain
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/01/study-of-the-day-soon-you-may-download-new-skills-to-your-brain/250775/

Start-up Makes 'Wireless Router for the Brain'
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/39512/

Creepily realistic robot can hold conversations and answer questions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IhVu2hxm07E

The Senate has passed the STOCK (Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge) Act, which forbids members of Congress from participating in insider trading.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/120202/senate-passes-stock-act

With NFL Players Behind Them, Groups Plan ‘Occupy Super Bowl’ Protests Of Indiana’s Assault On Workers
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/02/02/416270/nfl-union-super-bowl-protests/

5.6 Million Americans Have Switched Their Banks In The Last 90 Days
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/02/02/417054/americans-moving-banks-90-days/?mobile=nc

The ACLU yesterday filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration — the Justice and Defense Departments and the CIA — over the assassination of American citizens.
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/02/aclu_sues_obama_administration_over_assassination_secrecy/singleton/

The Cameras in the Courtroom Act calls for broadcasting all oral arguments in the Supreme Court.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/opinion/live-from-the-supreme-court.html?_r=2

Computers learn to read your mind.
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001251

New Study Reveals How Aluminium Promotes Cancer Growth
http://www.theglobalistreport.com/new-study-reveals-how-aluminium-promotes-cancer-growth/

Iran Turns Embargo Tables: To Pass Law Halting All Crude Exports To Europe
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/iran-turns-embargo-table-pass-law-halting-all-crude-exports-europe

Bombshell: Barack Obama outed as CIA creation (unverified)
http://www.newsbuster.com/pages/content/bombshell-barack-obama-outed-as-cia-creation.html#.TyDHR9beqk9.facebook

So......I just used ping.fm to post a story about twitter censorship to several different sites, Twitter being one of them, and big surprise it was censored by twitter. (not by the others) It split the URL into two chunks. The first leads to this bullshit; https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23TwitterBlackout (Relax: Twitter's New Censorship Policy Is Actually Good for Activists?) Then the second chunk leads to this; http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2012/0127/TwitterB

TwitterBlackout: Protests brew as complaints over censorship come to a boil
http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2012/0127/TwitterBlackout-Protests-brew-as-complaints-over-censorship-come-to-a-boil

Is Free Thinking A Mental Illness?http://www.offthegridnews.com/2010/10/08/is-free-thinking-a-mental-illness/

8 Conspiracy Theories About Health That The Mainstream Media Has Been Forced To Admit Are Actually True
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/8-conspiracy-theories-about-health-that-the-mainstream-media-has-been-forced-to-admit-are-actually-true

Top US Journalist Admits He Never Writes The Truth
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1682/021/NL/Top_US_Journalist_Admits_He_Never_Writes_The_Truth.html

EU attempts to ban cash transactions
http://www.blottr.com/europe/breaking-news/eu-attempts-ban-cash-transactions

U.S falls to 47th in press freedom rankings after Occupy crackdown
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2091948/U-S-falls-47th-press-freedom-rankings-Occupy-crackdown.html#ixzz1keyAA6V5
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2091948/U-S-falls-47th-press-freedom-rankings-Occupy-crackdown.html

More than 700 detainees in prisons around Kyrgyzstan have gone on hunger strike and sewed their lips together
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/01/201212420950643539.html

Russia has signed a contract to sell combat jets to Syria in a show of support for President Bashar Assad’s regime.
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article567056.ece

Four NK government officials murdered in what is an unprecedented crime for North Korea
http://www.dailynk.com.nyud.net/english/read.php?cataId=nk01500&num=8714

Marine gets three months in jail for massacring two dozen civilians
http://rt.com/usa/news/wuterich-haditha-civilians-iraq-513/

The Pirate Bay declares 3D printed “physibles” as the next frontier of piracy
http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/115185-the-pirate-bay-declares-3d-printed-physibles-as-the-next-frontier-of-piracy

Obama asks for bill to end insider trading in Congress, and some criminal fuckwad actually booed this on the floor. WTF?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YTAKktjpxmY#t=74s

Man takes viagra, wears sweatpants for tsa pat down.
http://thewashingtonfancy.com/2011/09/18/man-takes-viagra-wears-sweatpants-for-tsa-pat-down/1500

Julian Assange to host own TV show http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jan/24/julian-assange-host-tv-show

Former CIA officer charged in leaks case
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/former-cia-officer-charged-in-leaks/2012/01/23/gIQA3AhTLQ_story.html

https://torrentfreak.com/its-time-to-go-on-the-offensive-for-freedom-of-speech-120122/